Quotes About Time

I get up at 6:17 in the morning. I've timed it perfectly.

Every institution is perfectly capable of forgetting what it has learned in three years.

We entered 'Lucid Grey' into the Georgetown festival on April 27, 2001. Now 'Sound of My Voice' is opening on April 27, 11 years later. It couldn't have happened in a more perfectly cinematic way.

I think fitness and performance levels are the right indicators to determine if it's the time to leave the scene.

One single raga can be performed for two hours, three hours.

And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.

As long as I am given the opportunity to keep performing and keep exploring in whatever medium, I'll be happy. As long as I get to spend time with my family, I'll be happy. As long as I can write in some form, I'll be happy. It is the essential things like that I equate with happiness.

I'd love to go back to Greek times and see the birth of theater and performing, in that time. It would be so extraordinary to see the need that theater came out of, in the first place. I think we could probably all learn a bit from that.

There's also something of an illusion in that, you can perhaps record a TV thing one month and complete a book the next and then be in a play. Then, if they all come out at once, it looks as if you're actually juggling a million things.

I thought the war would never end. And perhaps it never did, either.

Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.

My time at Berklee College of Music was probably my greatest period of artistic growth and internalisation.

Ideas have a certain gestation period that can't be forced.

It's always shocking when you see a modern woman in a period story line. It doesn't make sense.

In the case of games, we have a belief that that could end up being the largest category in entertainment over a long period of time. Just look at what's happening in games and how social they've become.

A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation.

I feel making a commercial movie is much more challenging because there's so much you have to achieve within a certain period of time and budget.

You can do things with TV that you just can't do on film. There's so much more time: there's the opportunity for development, and you can let things lay dormant for a period. You can't really do that in two hours or three hours in a movie that often, I would say.

It can get a little costly if you try and leave it until then to write songs. But you're writing all the time. You're collecting songs. I've had songs that have been collected over a two-year period for my next record.

Being closer to the genesis of this whole period, it captured the importance of the concept of making contact and accurately depicted the paranoia of the time. It's an excellent film.

Actually, the 14 novels were written over a period of just over 6 years.

I think a film should have a gestation period of at least two or three years.

I think riots happen when communities are under pressure for long periods of time. That's not a mistake.

Great success doesn't come in short periods of time.